American Association of School Librarians (AASL)

The American Association of School Librarians became a division of ALA on January 1, 1951. Council approval for the diviaion was given on July 21, 1950, subject to membership vote of the American Association of School Librarians during the fall of 1950. The American Association of School Librarians was formerly a section of the Division of Libraries for Children and Young People, and before 1941 was the School Libraries Section of ALA, organized in 1915.